Moustapha Wade

Moustapha Wade , of her complete name El Hadj Tinder Mouhamadou Moustapha Wade (1922 - 2007), is a writer Senegalese.

Biography

Older brother of the president Abdoulaye Wade, it was born in 1922 with Kébémer, but passed a good part of his life in Guinea, first country of West Africa to be said not to De Gaulle in 1958, thus allowing the Republic of Guinea to immediately obtain his independence.

Those which côtoyé it at the beginning of independences, even front, see in him a man engaged in the fight against colonialism and a defender of the African cause, and this since it was student with Montpellier in France.

Isolated and marginalized by the French, President Ahmed Sékou Touré was not frequentable when Moustapha Wade testified to him to her fraternal solidarity. He also went in Ivory Coast, near his friend President Felix Houphouët-Boigny. Previously, it had gone to see his brothers of Algerian FLN.

Honorary president of the National association of the writers of Senegal, Moustapha Wade was known like a large guard of the world of the writers and other artists.

Enthusiastic Moslem, described by his close relations as being of a great piety, Moustapha Wade devoted his last years to the religion and the finishing of his prestigious set up Islamic institute with Kébémer where it rests.

Wade was the honorary president of the Association of the writers of Senegal, titrates that the General meeting of the aforesaid association in 1996 had conferred to him. It succeeded thus its famous precursors, Léopold Sédar Senghor and Birago Diop.

He dies in Dakar on July 22nd, 2007.

Work

Tragedy of independence , work seems it influenced by Aimé Césaire, Moustapha Wade did not have any sorrow to recognize the fact and to even assert it. Lesson of modesty and intellectual courage all at the same time undoubtedly somebody who wanted to be a disciple of the cantor of the Négritude, the Inhabitant of Martinique Césaire

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